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• Court ruling or no, gay troops know not to tell (AP)
• Experts: Gang taboos fueled NYC gay bias attacks (AP)
• Missing NC girl's dad: 'I just want to find her' (AP)
• Charter Schools: The Good Ones Aren't Flukes (or Cherrypickers) (Time.com)
• Attacking Alzheimer's (Time.com)
• APNewsBreak: NY officers face stat-fudging charges (AP)
• Prosecutor calls Pa. collar bomb suspect 'twisted' (AP)
• Army won't seek death in Afghan killings case (AP)
• Fla. pastor wins car for canceling Quran burning (AP)
• Calif. man gets jail time in sea lion shooting (AP)
• Feds oppose Calif. Prop 19 to legalize marijuana (AP)
• Black neighbors to picket woman's Confederate flag (AP)
• States linking prescription databases, fight abuse (AP)
• Witnesses say Fort Hood gunman kept firing outside (AP)
• Gay councilman's plea to bullied teens goes viral (AP)
• Fla. man to get $650,000 for strip club injury (AP)
• Teen who strangled brother gets life in prison (AP)
• Vt. lawsuit claiming condom in Whopper is dropped (AP)
• Cancer bracelets raise debate over school codes (AP)

Court ruling or no, gay troops know not to tell (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT AP - When word came down of a judge's ruling that gays could serve openly in the military, an Air Force officer received joyous congratulations from a comrade. Realizing there was someone in the room who didn't know his sexual orientation, the officer pretended it was a joke and laughed it off.

Experts: Gang taboos fueled NYC gay bias attacks (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 02:36 PM PDT AP - Late one Saturday, members of a gang in a Bronx neighborhood spotted one of their recruits coming out of an apartment around the corner from their hangout. Most people in this Bronx enclave know one another, and this particular apartment was the home of a gay man known by neighbors as "La Reina" — the queen.

Missing NC girl's dad: 'I just want to find her' (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:18 PM PDT AP - The father of a missing 10-year-old said Friday that he is still not sure whether his wife was involved in the girl's disappearance.

Charter Schools: The Good Ones Aren't Flukes (or Cherrypickers) (Time.com) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:00 PM PDT Time.com - Although students at high-performing charters are admitted via lottery, the success of these top-tier schools isn't random and is very much replicable

Attacking Alzheimer's (Time.com) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:00 PM PDT Time.com - Our probing special report details promising advances in preventing -- and possibly treating -- this relentless disease

APNewsBreak: NY officers face stat-fudging charges (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:31 PM PDT AP - Four New York Police Department officers are facing internal charges based on the highly publicized accusations by a fellow officer that they manipulated crime statistics, an NYPD official said Friday.

Prosecutor calls Pa. collar bomb suspect 'twisted' (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 02:47 PM PDT AP - A Pennsylvania woman fidgeted and whispered angry denials as a federal prosecutor told a jury that she played a role in a devious scheme to lock a bomb onto the neck of a pizza deliveryman and force him to rob a bank.

Army won't seek death in Afghan killings case (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:31 PM PDT AP - A U.S. soldier who told investigators in horrifying detail that he and other members of his unit executed three civilians in Afghanistan for sport will not face the death penalty if convicted, the Army said Friday.

Fla. pastor wins car for canceling Quran burning (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 02:52 PM PDT AP - SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Car dealer Brad Benson made the pitch to Florida pastor Terry Jones in one of his quirky radio ads: If you don't burn a Quran, I'll give you a new car.

Calif. man gets jail time in sea lion shooting (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:54 PM PDT AP - A Sacramento man convicted of shooting a sea lion in the head will spend 30 days in jail and five years on probation.

Feds oppose Calif. Prop 19 to legalize marijuana (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 04:49 PM PDT AP - Attorney General Eric Holder is warning that the federal government will not look the other way, as it has with medical marijuana, if voters next month make California the first state to legalize pot.

Black neighbors to picket woman's Confederate flag (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:19 AM PDT AP - Annie Chambers Caddell, whose ancestors fought in the Civil War, insists the Confederate flag flying over her home is an important reminder of her heritage. But for her neigbors in this tree-shrouded, historically black neighborhood, it's an unpleasant reminder of a by-gone era they'd rather not see every time they pass by her house.

States linking prescription databases, fight abuse (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 06:26 AM PDT AP - Starting next year, dozens of states will begin knitting together databases to watch prescription drug abuse, from powerful painkillers to diet pills.

Witnesses say Fort Hood gunman kept firing outside (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 04:44 PM PDT AP - As dozens of soldiers lay dead or bleeding in a Fort Hood processing center last year, a gunman went outside and continued firing as others ran to nearby buildings, hid behind cars or carried wounded comrades to safety, witnesses told a military court Friday.

Gay councilman's plea to bullied teens goes viral (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - A city councilman in Fort Worth, Texas, has rocketed into cyberspace prominence in a video pleading with gay teens not to commit suicide and tearfully recounting his own ordeals as a bullied schoolboy.

Fla. man to get $650,000 for strip club injury (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:22 PM PDT AP - A South Florida attorney says his client will get $650,000 after a dancer's platform shoe shattered his eye socket at a strip club.

Teen who strangled brother gets life in prison (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:16 PM PDT AP - An Indiana teenager who admitted he strangled his 10-year-old brother and told police he identified with a TV serial killer was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole.

Vt. lawsuit claiming condom in Whopper is dropped (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 01:42 PM PDT AP - A former Vermont man who claimed he bit into a Burger King sandwich and found an unwrapped condom has dropped his lawsuit, with the restaurant agreeing to drop its counterclaim.

Cancer bracelets raise debate over school codes (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 02:24 AM PDT AP - A $4 rubber bracelet meant to raise breast cancer awareness has done that and more: Students nationwide are wearing the "I (heart) boobies" wristbands, and running afoul of school administrators.

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